Trump threatens to replace TSA officers with ICE agents as DHS shutdown drags on
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An article from the Washington examiner reports that President Donald Trump said he would deploy ICE officers to airports to conduct security screenings if Congress does not fund the Department of Homeland Security. He claimed this would restore security at airports and announced that ICE would arrest illegal immigrants, including from Somalia, a comment he posted on Truth Social. The piece notes that TSA and ICE fall under DHS, which has been in a funding-induced shutdown since February, leaving TSA workers unpaid and causing security lines to grow at airports. Trump did not specify how the plan would be implemented. The story is presented as breaking news and will be updated.
Trump threatens to replace TSA officers with ICE agents as DHS shutdown drags on
President Donald Trump announced he would deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to conduct security screenings at airports if Congress does not fund the Department of Homeland Security.
“If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Trump announced the arrest of illegal immigrants would include a “heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota.”
“I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our Airports,” Trump said.
TSA WAIT TIME IN ATLANTA HITS TWO HOURS AS SHUTDOWN STAFFING SHORTAGES PERSIST
Both the Transportation Security Administration and ICE are under the jurisdiction of DHS, which has been in an ongoing shutdown since its funding lapsed in February. TSA workers have missed their paychecks, causing some to call out of work as security lines pile up in airports.
Trump did not immediately detail how the move would be implemented.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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